Most people have easy access to location-sharing apps, but how they use them and the drama that ensues differs. For Maria-Camila Garcia (right), only her true friends let her track their whereabouts.

Back in Android 12, Google added some flexibility to Android’s location permission by allowing users to only give apps access to their “approximate” location. It’s a great idea, but one that’s ruined ...

Applications and websites have different reasons for wanting to know your location, based on the features they offer. Apps like Google’s Waze, which gives driving directions with real-time traffic ...

Playing Candy Crush, swiping left on a dating app and checking your Yahoo inbox shouldn’t expose your location. I say shouldn’t, but those apps and thousands more were likely hijacked by data brokers ...

Apple has quietly rolled out a new privacy feature that gives iPhone and iPad users more control over how precisely their ...

Location sharing helps you worry less. Whether your friend’s late for dinner, your kid’s almost home or your partner’s on the way from the airport, it sure beats sending a bunch of texts back and ...

Faith writes guides, how-tos, and roundups on the latest Android games and apps for Android Police. You'll find her writing about the newest free-to-play game to hit Android or discussing her paranoia ...

It’s 10 p.m. — and you definitely know where your children are. Thanks to a proliferation of location-sharing apps, it’s become easy for parents, partners and pals to sneakily pinpoint the exact ...